Q 01/05

Which city, the coldest national capital on Earth, is home to almost half of Mongolia's people?

A) Bayankhongor

B) Karakorum

C) Ulaanbaatar

D) Darkhan

Answer · why

C) Ulaanbaatar

Ulaanbaatar is so cold because of its high elevation, its distance from any coast and the Siberian anticyclone. Its name, adopted in 1924, means 'Red ...

Q 02/05

Which arid region shared by China and Mongolia yielded the first dinosaur eggs recognised by science?

A) Gobi Desert

B) Taklamakan Desert

C) Kumtag Desert

D) Lop Desert

Answer · why

A) Gobi Desert

The Gobi Desert gave up twenty-six dinosaur eggs in 1923, averaging 23 cm in length. It is a cold desert, and temperatures as low as −32.8 °C have bee...

Q 03/05

Which city is home to the Ryugyong Hotel, a 330 m pyramid begun in 1987 and left unfinished for decades?

A) Wonsan

B) Kaesong

C) Hamhung

D) Pyongyang

Answer · why

D) Pyongyang

Pyongyang watched work on the hotel stop in 1992, when North Korea's economy went into crisis after the Soviet Union dissolved. In 2018 one side was f...

Q 04/05

Which South Korean company, whose name means 'three stars', began in 1938 trading dried fish and noodles?

A) Hyundai

B) Samsung

C) Daewoo

D) Lotte

Answer · why

B) Samsung

Samsung spent three decades moving into food processing, textiles, insurance and retail before it entered the electronics industry in the late 1960s. ...

Q 05/05

Which dam in China's Hubei province is the largest power station on Earth by installed capacity?

A) Three Gorges Dam

B) Xiaolangdi Dam

C) Danjiangkou Dam

D) Gezhouba Dam

Answer · why

A) Three Gorges Dam

The Three Gorges Dam stores so much water that NASA scientists calculated the shifted mass would lengthen Earth's day by 0.06 microseconds. Its instal...